Jean Francois Cheuwa
Licence d’Histoire des Relations Internationales Option Science Po, Université de Dschang
Maîtrise d’Histoire des Relations Internationales Option Sciences Po, Université de Yaoundé
Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies d’Histoire Politique et Culturelle, Université de Ngaoundéré
Jean Francois is a second-year graduate student in the French Program at the Florida State University.
Research Interests: Contemporary Subsaharan francophone literature.
His Research is focusing on the relationship between Migration - Exile - Human Right and literature in Subsaharan Francophone Africa in general and Cameroon in particular. This study is conducted through the prism of one of Patrice Nganang's books: La révolte anglophone, essais de liberté, de prison et d’exil. Before joining Florida State University, Jean Francois was a doctoral student at the History Department of the University of Ngaoundere and History, Geography, Spanish teacher in Cameroon.
Peter Osne
BA in International Relations, Florida International University
MA in International Law, Université de Montréal
Research Interests: Caribbean francophone literature
Peter Osne is a current Ph.D. student at Florida State University (FSU). Before coming to FSU, he received his B.A. in International Relations (with a minor in French) in 2011 at Florida International University. In 2014, he completed an MA in International Law at Université de Montréal, where he independently studied the evolution of francophone literature in Europe, North America, Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Maghreb. As a doctoral student, he is interested in the manifestation of social convulsions (soubresauts) in the literary works of Caribbean francophone writers (especially Lyonel Trouillot).
Alexis Chauchois
Master in French Literature, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris 3
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Université d’Artois
Research interests: 19th and 20th Century French Literature, Post-WWI Literature, Contemporary French Cultural Studies, Post-colonial Studies with an emphasis on Caribbean Literature, Philosophical and Historical Studies.
Alexis is currently a doctoral student in the French Literature Program at Florida State University. He received a Master’s in “Lettres Modernes” from the Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris 3, writing his thesis under the direction of Alain Schaffner. Currently, Alexis’s research focuses on the writing of French author Louis-Ferdinand Celine. He is also interested in the works of Émile Zola, Michel Houellebecq, and Makenzy Orcel.
Over his time at Florida State University, Alexis has presented at several international conferences on topics such as: “Ivre de vivre : le chemin de l’extase dans La nuit des terrasses de Makenzy Orcel”, “Le sang de la mort de Louis-Ferdinand Céline”, and “Première guerre mondiale: l’impact du sang dans Voyage au bout de la nuit de Louis-Ferdinand Céline”. In Spring 2018, Alexis will present his work about Michel Houellebecq at the Colloque International des Études Françaises et Francophones des 20ème et 21ème siècles, “sous les pavés” (Brown University).
Prior to coming to Florida State University, Alexis was an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at the Artois University (France), where he published numerous articles in various journals (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexis_Chauchois). In addition, Alexis serves as an Associate Editor for the Korean Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Civil Engineering and was a Visiting Professor of Civil Engineering for two years at Korea University in Seoul.
As a passion, Alexis became World Champion in Kemp Karate (KO Karate) in 2007 in London.
Manfa Sanogo
License d’anglais, Université de Cocody-Abidjan
License d’anglais, Université de Strasbourg
MA in Language, Literature and Translation, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Research Interests: Post-colonial francophone film and literature with particular attention to the intersection of violence, immigration, international laws, borders, and children-soldiers
Research Interests:Malagasy literature, Hainteny, Romanticism, Baudelaire, Minor/major literature, Indocean identity, African religion, sports as religion, soccer.
Manfa joined the doctoral program in French at FSU in Fall 2015. He holds a Licence d’anglais from the Université de Cocody-Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire) with a focus on American literature and civilization, aLicence d’anglaisfrom the Université de Strasbourg (France), with a focus on translation theory, and an MA in Language, Literature and Translation from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, with a focus on French and Francophone Literature. In his current research, he looks into the cross-fertilization between Malagasy literature and post-Enlightenment French literature. His research interests include hainteny (a Malagasy poetic genre), the flow between minor and major literatures, the formation of transnational and regional identities in the Indian Ocean, and the emulation of canons, as well as censorship, in Malagasy literature. He also worked on post-colonial francophone film and literature with particular attention to the intersection of violence, immigration, religion and soccer.